01 n. A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense.
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A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense.“Behold an immersion, not and aspersion.” — Jer. Taylor.
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The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny.“Every candid critic would be ashamed to cast wholesale aspersions on the entire body of professional teachers.” — Grote.“Who would by base aspersions blot thy virtue.” — Dryden.